I am finding Cross-stitching so relaxing. I have been working for hours a day on this.
Making a lot of progress. I admit, I have been making mistakes. Some of them are frogged and replaced. Others I have left in place. No one will see them.
I have been watching Floss-tube. Cross-stitchers who have a channel on You Tube. I have to admit, most of them are quite boring. Boring is what makes cross-stitch so relaxing. But every now and then I will get some wonderful information. So these floss tags are a useful thing. I tried watching someone talk about them. 30 minutes of nothing, which is the problem with most You Tube videos. There is a hook that makes you watch. A hook that could be shared in a minute and the YouTuber drones on and on…
So watching Shiloh, she talked about how to make these as well as how to cut and use the thread – in less than three minutes.
I was even able to go and work outside! Ah, January in Los Angeles.
Yes, I am enjoying my QSnaps. But my larger one is on my other project and I was using my 6″x 6″. Which means I would have to move the frame. So another thing that Shiloh mentioned was this flexible frame. Yup, I ordered the frame and am enjoying it just as much as the QSnap.
I have finished January!! As you can see, I went a little further. February is only two weeks away, before long I will back at this project. Meanwhile, since this will take a whole year to finish, what I need a project back. So to the sewing machine and my fabric stash I went.
And here it is! Quite large enough to hold the pages without them being folded or wrinkled.
Yes, I dipped into my bead collection to make a zipper pull. This is a pomegranate bead I’ve had from Israel for years.
And now, back to my previous project. I know many Cross-stitchers have 40 or 50 projects going. I can see having two or three, but I won’t become a mag-pie.
Leah